Managing Pension and Retirement Plans

• Part I Fundamentals1: An Introduction to Pension Plans2: What Pension Plans Do3: Designing the Best Pension Plan4: The Prudent Pension Fiduciary: A Pragmatic View5: An Overview of Compliance for Pension Plans6: Establishing Pension Investment Policy7: The Asset Allocation DecisionPart II Defined Benefit Plans8: The Integrated Approach to Managing Defined Benefit Plans9: Asset Allocation for Defined Benefit Plans10: Accounting for Defined Benefit PlansPart III Defined Contribution and Hybrid Plans11: Investment Policy and Asset Allocation for Defined Contribution Plans12: Employee Stock Ownership Plans and Company Stock13: Hybrid PlansPart IV Measuring, Evaluating, and Improving Investment Performance14: Evaluating Investment Performance15: Improving Pension Fund Investment Performance16: Managing Pension Fund Risk17: Risk Management Strategies Using Derivative SecuritiesPart V Management Issues: Decisions, Strategies, and People18: Selecting and Managing Asset Managers19: Managing Costs20: People and the Psychology of Pension Fund Decisions21: The Pension Plan as Shareholder22: The Path to Better Pension Plan ManagementAppendicesNotesWorks CitedIndex

'The authors do an excellent job covering the basics across retirement plan types and the book is well suited for people who have recently moved into positions of responsibility in this area.'